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This issue documents the massive state security operation during anti-Republic Day protests, widespread student and labor detentions, guerilla actions by the ANC, and extensive trials under apartheid-era laws. Major topics include detentions of COSAS members, SAAWU and AZAPO activists, Robben Island releases, union suppression, and forced removals. It contains full trial listings, bans and restrictions, Namibia militarization, Kassinga anniversary, and a historical review of 20 years of repression since the Republic’s founding. The issue also exposes systemic use of torture, curfews, censorship, rape by soldiers, and the conscription system in Namibia.

This issue highlights intensified South African military operations in northern Namibia and southern Angola, including troop build-ups, air and land attacks, and damage to Angolan infrastructure. It covers the formation of the South West Africa Police (SWAP), the continued detention and reported torture of Kassinga detainees, and testimony from Ida Jimmy, a SWAPO political prisoner. The issue also details major political trials in South Africa, including those of Oscar Mpetha, Guy Berger, Devandiren Pillay, and various students and unionists. There are detailed accounts of new bannings, forced removals under the Group Areas Act, school repression, press censorship, and a complete list of detentions and releases under apartheid security laws.